The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-31
A VALUABLE WORK.
A Compilation of Facts That Will Prove os
Vital Interest to American Agric ulturists.

A Compilation of Facts That Win Prove OF
Vital Interest to American Agric ulturists.
Special to the Indianapolis journal
WASHINGTON, July 3O-Three years ago at
the request of number of stockmen in differ
emit parts of the country, the State Department
addressed a letter to overy United States consul
directing all to furnish the department with
such information relating to stock breeding,
dairy farming and kindred industries as might
be interesting to dairy-farmers and stock. breed
ers in the United States The result of those in
vestigations has just been issued from the govern
ment printing Office. 1t is mbraced in q vol
ume of nearly nine hundred pages. which will
doubtless prove of greater value to the millions
Of farmers in this country than any other work
ever issued By the government The work
performed under the direction of Mr.. Michael
Scanlon. of the consular bureau. who had edited
several valuable works of like character, and it
represents upwards of two years of the labor of
that gentleman, as we'll as the careful researches
of the entire consular list The volume givas
a graphic idea of the development of the
breeding industry in all portions of the world.
and if it could be distributed among the mon who
most interested in its contents it would
doubtless prove of inestmabls value to the
farmers of the United States Unfortunately,
however. there have been very few of these valu-
long before the farmers hear that they have been
Issued. Worse than this, it is sal that the type
has not been stereotyped and that if Congress
orders new supply printed it will be necessary
to reset the entire work. The committee
printing of Congress were urged to order ad-
dtional supply of these works printed, but
attention was paid to the request and the result
is that there will be scarcely enough of them
supply the libraries of mem bers themselves and
of their immediate friends. The work contains
366 Autographed plates and 855 pages of letter
press It is replete with interesting data and
world It is interesting TO note that this country
supplies more than 30 per cent of
all the foreign cheese consumed in the United
Kingd ON. In 1884 the total amount i'm
ported into Great Britain and Ireland
2l5 S39.568 pounds. OF this vast quantity of
casein. the United States supplied 100, 333, $50
pounds Yet while the Unitod States has sue
ceeded in securing the British market for cheese,
1t has not been SO successful with butter. or a
total of 243 632 pounds of this product of the
dairy, the United States furnished only IL. 231,-
472 pounds. against 124. 924, 128 pounds from
Holland. This country. however, furnished the
the thrifty Dutch butter merchants with
ward of 30, 600, 900 pounds of the oil from which
oleomorgarine is made and this doubtless
piled the basis which a great deal of
the celebrated Dutch butter of London
reports of American consuls in England
that the "roast beef of old England is fast dis
appearing. and that in spite of the prejudices
of John Bull and his daughters the American
English farmer surely and rapidly. It will not
do for the farmers of the United States re-
main in the background, and the day will come,
no doubt, when American butter well as
the British markets. The factory system in the
production of cheese has established the ,eputa-
ton of American cheese abroad. AS soon as the
farmers show as much enterprise in the matter